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by Patana Group Correspondent

The PA government never permitted communal violence, unlike the UNP regime which witnessed three major communal violence, including the worst bloodshed of July 1983, which led the country to the present catastrophic condition, said PA candidate for Nuwara-Eliya district A.P. Kanapathy Pillai, addressing a meeting at the Ceylon Estate Red Flag Union auditorium in Hatton.

The meeting was presided over by O.A. Ramiah, General Secretary of the Ceylon Estate Red Flag Union.

The candidate, Kanapathi Pillai, further said that the plantation people were displaced in huge numbers during those waves of communal violence, lost their belongings, their loved ones and became helpless destitutes. But the PA government, on the contrary, created the Ministry of Estate Infrastructure, for the first time in the history of the plantation workers, for the socio economic welfare of the plantation workers and allocated huge funds, through that ministry, for their welfare, besides from housing schemes for them. The PA government provided electricity, water supply, better transport and road development projects, virtually to all estates, he stated.

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